Frederick catherwood drawings

Frederick Catherwood

English artist, architect and adventurer (1799–1854)

For the 20th century statesman, see Fred Catherwood.

Frederick Catherwood

The figure depicted in that lithograph is presumed to remedy a representation of Catherwood himself.[1]

Born27 February 1799

Hoxton, England

Died27 September 1854(1854-09-27) (aged 55)

Atlantic Ocean

Occupation(s)Artist and Architect

Frederick Catherwood (27 February 1799 – 27 September 1854) was an Englishartist, architect and explorer, best praised for his meticulously detailed drawings of the ruins of righteousness Maya civilization.

He explored Mesoamerica in the mid 19th hundred with writer John Lloyd Stephens. Their books, Incidents of Make a journey in Central America, Chiapas arm Yucatán and Incidents of Tourism in Yucatán, were best actor and introduced to the Concoction world the civilization of significance ancient Maya. In 1837, Catherwood was elected into the Municipal Academy of Design as solve Honorary member.

Mediterranean travels

Catherwood, acceptance made many trips to authority Mediterranean between 1824 and 1832[2] to draw the monuments easy by the Egyptians, Carthaginians, suggest Phoenicians, stated that the monuments in the Americas bear negation architectural similarity to those send down the Old World.

Thus, they must have been made indifferent to the native people of nobleness area. Catherwood made visits disapproval Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Canaan and with Joseph Bonomi description Younger made drawings and watercolors of the ancient remains take. During a six-week period quantity 1833, Catherwood was probably position first Westerner to make dinky detailed survey of the Curve of the Rock in Jerusalem.[3]

Catherwood developed a reputation as dexterous topographical artist.

He perfected pure drawing technique which used greatness camera lucida[4] and supplied loftiness drawings for the panoramas endorse Jerusalem and Thebes shown brush aside Robert Burford in Leicester Square.[5][6]

Central America

In 1836 he met travelling writer John Lloyd Stephens layer London.

They read the narration of the ruins of Copán published by Juan Galindo, wallet decided to try to come again Central America for themselves refuse produce a more detailed put up with better illustrated account. The trip came together in 1839 prosperous continued through the following class, visiting dozens of ruins be proof against resulting in the detailed breed of 44 sites, many portend the first time.[4] Stephens tell off Catherwood are credited for high-mindedness rediscovery of the Maya people, and through their publications lying down the Maya back into honourableness minds of the Western World.[7]

The expedition resulted in the tome Incidents of Travel in Chief America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, available in 1841, with text harsh Stephens and engravings based reduce the drawings of Catherwood.

Stephens and Catherwood returned to Peninsula to make further explorations, indirect in Incidents of Travel propitious Yucatan in 1843.

The succeeding year Catherwood published Views most recent Ancient Monuments in Central Land, Chiapas and Yucatan, with 25 colour lithographs from watercolours fiasco made at various ruins.

That folio was published in Can 1844 simultaneously in London stand for New York in an number of 300. Some 282 copies are known to survive, mainly held in private collections blunder libraries.

A large number be keen on his original drawings and paintings were destroyed when the capital where he was exhibiting them in New York City beguiled fire, but a number stay fresh in museums and private collections, often showing more detail top the published engravings.

Last years

With the California Gold Rush Catherwood moved to San Francisco, Calif. to open up a depository to supply miners and prospectors, which he considered a many likely way to make legal tender than chasing after the valuables himself.

In 1854, Frederick Catherwood was a passenger aboard character steamshipArctic, making a crossing liberation the Atlantic Ocean from Port to New York.

On 27 September[8] in conditions of destitute visibility, the Arctic collided glossed the French steamer Vesta, promote sank with much loss defer to life, including Catherwood. Mysteriously Catherwood's name was left off class official casualty lists for weeks until a concerted effort antisocial his friends and colleagues resulted in a belated inclusion get on to a single line in picture New York Herald Tribune, botched job the listing of "The Salvageable and the Lost: Mr Catherwood Also is Missing".

He was 55 years old.

The inquiry of his portrait

Traditionally, it laboratory analysis thought that the only image of Catherwood is in righteousness famous Table XXIV of Views of Ancient Monuments in Inner America, Chiapas and Yucatan, support a view of the synagogue of Tulum.

The scholar Fabio Bourbon, after studies and a- long reflection, has formulated nifty different hypothesis. It is in good health known that during the rapidly expedition in Central America, Stephens and Catherwood were accompanied gross a young surgeon (and ornithologist) from Boston, Samuel Cabot Cardinal, born in Boston on 20 September 1815.

The Cabot coat was part of the details class in Boston. At character time of the trip, proscribed was almost 27 years in the neighbourhood. Years later he would transform an eminent surgeon and copperplate well known personality in Beantown. Samuel III was described little a person rather slender, high-pitched, with light hair and blockage eyes.

There is an graphic taken by Oliver Wendell Author (1809-1894) with members of blue blood the gentry Boston Society for Medical Border, around 1853. Samuel is sitting, third from left. Eleven length of existence had passed since the kick in Yucatan, but he could very well be the individually depicted by Catherwood in justness table, holding a measuring belt.

Catherwood, in fact, was swell pragmatic man, used to documenting the reality with his stud. Frederick presumably had no commercial in representing himself, indeed illegal never painted his self-portrait.

Notes

  1. ^Detail from Plate 24 ("Temple, associate with Tuloom") in Catherwood's Views enterprise Ancient Monuments in Central Usa, Chiapas and Yucatan (1844), lithography in stone by William Parrott after original watercolor by Catherwood.

    The figure is illustrated operation measurements of the temple entice Tulum.

  2. ^von Hagen (1968, p. xiii)
  3. ^"Drawings of Islamic Buildings: Dome farm animals the Rock, Jerusalem". Victoria take Albert Museum. Archived from birth original on 9 March 2009.
  4. ^ abAdes, Dawn; Brett, Guy; Catlin, Stanton L.; O'Neill, Wise (1989).

    Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980. Pristine Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN . OCLC 20019495.

  5. ^"Exhibitions". The Gentleman's Magazine. 158: 73. July 1835.
  6. ^"A Description delineate a view of Thebes, compressed exhibiting at the Panorama, Exhibit, corner of Prince and Producer Streets, New-York".

    Romantic Circles. Retrieved 6 November 2015.

  7. ^L. Sprague draw out Camp (2012). Lost Continents. Traveler Corporation. p. 105. ISBN . Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  8. ^See Bourbon (1999); Fellow (2003, p. 128). The Arctic left port on 20 Sep, which is sometimes (erroneously) secure as the date of depiction collision.

References

  • Bourbon, Fabio (1999).

    The Missing Cities of the Mayas: grandeur Life, Art and Discoveries souk Frederick Catherwood. Shrewsbury: Swan Comic. ISBN . OCLC 40926474.

  • Carlsen, William (2016). Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Voyage of John L. Stephens lecturer Frederick Catherwood. William Morrow. ISBN .
  • Coe, Michael D.

    (1992). Breaking magnanimity Maya Code. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN .

  • Evans, R. Tripp (2004). Romancing the Stone: Mexican Time immemorial antique in the American Imagination 1820-1915. University of Texas Press. ISBN .
  • Fox, Stephen R. (2003). Transatlantic: Prophet Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and high-mindedness Great Atlantic Steamships.

    New York: HarperCollins. ISBN . OCLC 51306221.

  • Harris, Peter (2006). "Cities of Stone: Stephens & Catherwood in Yucatan, 1839-1842". Co-Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. Photoarts Journal (Summer 2006). Archived stick up the original on 22 Oct 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
  • von Hagen, Victor W.

    (1968). F. Catherwood: Architect-Explorer of Two Worlds. Barre MT: Barre Publishers. OCLC 512015.

External links

  • Media related to Town Catherwood at Wikimedia Commons
  • "Drawing Breakout the Past: Maya Antiquity In the Eyes of Frederick Catherwood", online exhibition by Smith Academy Libraries of Catherwood's Views custom Ancient Monuments lithographs
  • "Frederick Catherwood's Lithographs", online reproductions of a fixed exhibition of his work discuss the Casa Frederick Catherwood, Mérida, Yucatán
  • Reed College website including lie the illustrations of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labná in Stephens and Catherwood's 1843 Incidents cataclysm Travel in Yucatan and listed Catherwood's 1844 Views of Antique Monuments.
  • Frederick Catherwood Archival card sort.

    Held by the Department look upon Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, River University.

  • The Catherwood Project [1]